A Progressive Economic Strategy

A way of looking at the challenges for a progressive economic strategy is to see the complementarity among policies that: boost innovation; reduce inequality in assets and in market income; and foster the growth of good jobs in the labour-absorbing service sectors.

About the author:
Wendy Carlin is professor of economics at University College London
(UCL) and research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research
(CEPR), UK

This working paper was presented at the Policy Network Progressive Governance Conference, hosted by the Leader of the Irish Labour Party, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore in Dublin on the 12 October, 2012.